Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Danacord’s annual selection of highlights from the previous year’s Husum Festival represents, on this occasion, something of a milestone. The 2016...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017
Palestinian classical composition remains a largely unknown quantity, even though numerous practitioners were based at least partially in the West....
Reviewed by Richard Whitehouse in issue: 10/2017
With origins dating back to the 18th century, the opera fantasy reached its artistic peak during the 19th in the...
Reviewed by Patrick Rucker in issue: 10/2017
A photograph of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition silver medallist on the disc cover shows a young man looking into the camera...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 10/2017
The Greek word ‘afierossis’ is a portmanteau of ‘dedication’ and ‘sacred’. On this impressive recording, the Athens-born cellist Michael Heupel explores...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 10/2017
As if playing such a ravishing instrument were not enough, exponents of the viola da gamba must be feeling especially...
Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 10/2017
The long-neglected British composer William Sterndale Bennett moved in the highest musical circles, being a close friend of both Mendelssohn...
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 10/2017
For her second Scarlatti release, Angela Hewitt partitions 17 sonatas into five distinctly contrasted but well-integrated sub-groups, although an overall game...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
Incompetence, amateurism, banality and ineptitude figure largely in previous Gramophone assessments of Nietzsche’s compositional efforts. My guess is that they would...
Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 10/2017
In the main, Kotaro Fukuma’s Chopin Preludes abound in brute force yet lack poetry. He lays on No 2’s left-hand dissonances to...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 10/2017
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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